PG&E Selects ESRI for Enterprise GIS Site License; Joins Growing List of Nation's Largest Energy Businesses Implementing ESRI Enterprise GIS Software and Services.REDLANDS, Calif. -- Pacific Gas and Electric company
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) , (NYSE: PCG), is the utility that provides natural gas and electricity to most of Northern California. (PG&E) has selected ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. as its enterprise geographic information system geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to (GIS) software provider. The company will take advantage of a corporate-wide enterprise license that includes the full suite of ArcGIS software, extensions, and services. The result will be an open, scalable, and standards-based GIS architecture that will integrate and leverage existing information technology (IT) resources. The newly implemented GIS will meet diverse business and engineering needs now and into the future. Pacific Gas and Electric Company is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation, serves approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California. PG&E's selection of ESRI software for a company-wide site license is the latest in a series of large-scale implementations by the nation's largest energy businesses. Half of the nation's top dozen energy businesses now use ESRI's enterprise GIS software. PG&E joins major utilities such as Southern Company, DTE Energy, CenterPoint Energy, Consumers Energy, PHI Holdings, and many others. "ESRI has spent more than 35 years providing the core GIS technology platform to energy businesses of all sizes, and we've partnered with leading industry vendors to meet the full range of utility business needs," says Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI. "We're committed to leveraging this expertise to help utilities like PG&E. The enterprise platform will enable employees to work faster, smarter, and with greater efficiency and productivity using GIS for analytics and decision support." The multiyear implementation will deliver a single GIS solution for PG&E's electric, gas, and land base divisions and enhance investments in core information technologies. Best-of-breed partners that will also work with PG&E include ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s , Itron, Advantica, Cadastra, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , MDSI MDSI Multiple (Destination) Digital Speech Interpolation MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc. MDSI Mountain Data Systems, Inc (Boise, Idaho) , Miner & Miner, and SAP. About ESRI Founded in 1969, ESRI (www.esri.com) is the world leader in the GIS software industry. ESRI offers innovative solutions that help users create, manage, analyze, and display information to make timely decisions and solve problems they encounter every day. ESRI's comprehensive product line ranges from desktop GIS to GIS for the enterprise. |
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